NCT03501303Completed
A Clinical Trial on No-touch Vein Graft (NT-graft) in Coronary Surgery
A Nordic, Multicentre, Prospective, Randomized, Register Based, Clinical Trial on No-touch Vein Graft (NT-graft) in Coronary Surgery
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 10 Sept 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The primary objective in this study is to investigate if vein grafts harvested and implanted with the non-touch technique are superior to conventional vein graft technique with respect to mid-term patency, in patients undergoing CABG surgery.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 902 (actual)
- First submitted
- 14 Mar 2018
- Start date
- 20 Apr 2018
- Primary completion date
- 19 Sept 2023
- Lead sponsor
- Uppsala University
- Diseases
- Coronary artery disease
- NCT number
- NCT03501303
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 902
- From 20 Apr 2018 to the primary completion date, 19 Sept 2023
- 9 sites in 2 countries
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Prior treatment
- unable to use greater saphenous vein grafts (SVG) due to previous vein stripping or poor vein quality
Other illness
- allergy to contrast dye
- coagulation disorders
- excessive risk of wound infection
- any condition that seriously increases the risk of non-compliance or loss of follow-up
Lab values
- renal failure with glomerular filtration rate (GFR)\<15 ml/min
Other
- participation in other interventional trial on grafts
Who the study is looking for
- first time CABG patients
- age up to 80 years at the time for inclusion
- need for at least one vein graft
- able to provide informed consent and accepted for isolated primary non-emergent CABG.
Age in the registry: - to 80 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (9)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aarhus ... Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Aarhus | Denmark | Unknown status |
| Göteborg .... Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Gothenburg | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Karlskrona Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Karlskrona | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Linköping Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Linköping | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Lund Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Lund | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Örebro, Sweden Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Örebro | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Karolinska sjukhuset Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Stockholm | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Umeå Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Umeå | Sweden | Unknown status |
| Uppsala Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Uppsala | Sweden | Unknown status |
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